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Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Z.ai: GLM 5 ·Google vs Z.ai

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Z.ai: GLM 5 — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview profile Z.ai: GLM 5 profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview — Google
Quality
#2 of 65
97based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#44 of 341
106.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#377 of 450
$4.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.00 · Out $12.00
Cache hit price
#240 of 344
$0.20
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#49 of 487
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 5 — Z.ai
Quality
#21 of 65
77based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#222 of 341
40.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#232 of 450
$0.93
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.60 · Out $1.92
Cache hit price
#189 of 344
$0.12
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#299 of 487
205k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores 97 and Z.ai: GLM 5 scores 77 — a 20-point lead for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. They share 3 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview ahead on 3 and Z.ai: GLM 5 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $4.50 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and $0.93 for Z.ai: GLM 5 — Z.ai: GLM 5 is about 4.8× cheaper.

Throughput is 106 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and 40 for Z.ai: GLM 5, with time to first token at 3.4s and 2.2s. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 205k.

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 5 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 16 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5
Known Good Index 97 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 77 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $4.50 $0.93
Output tok/s 106 40
Context window 1.05M 205k
Providers 2 14
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5
Known Good Index 97 77
Coding Index 69
Reasoning Index 99
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond94 / 88
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 80
Terminal-Bench80 / 52

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview / Z.ai: GLM 5. Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads on 3 of 3, Z.ai: GLM 5 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5
Text Arena 1,480 1,446
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,487 1,458
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5
Input $/1M $2.00 $0.60
Output $/1M $12.00 $1.92
Blended $/1M $4.50 $0.93
Cache read $/1M $0.200 $0.120
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5
Context window 1.05M 205k
Max output tokens 66k 128k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewZ.ai: GLM 5
Output tokens/s 106 40
Time to first token 3.4s 2.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

16 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5 tok/s
Google AI Studio $2.25 113
Google · first party $2.25 98
Amazon Bedrock · first party $1.55 88
GMICloud $0.93 60
Baidu · first party $1.08 54
DeepInfra $0.97 53
Venice $1.55 48
Chutes $1.35 45
Z.AI · first party $1.55 44
Novita $1.55 39
AtlasCloud $1.50 35
StreamLake $0.93 34
SiliconFlow $1.35 26
DigitalOcean $1.55 7
Parasail $1.55
Phala $1.77

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →